Winter is coming. Hello Face Painting Snow Designs. I'm looking forward to it:

Client said they ordered FACE PAINTING, and that's what they want. Unusual event because of the Pandemic-Masks, but it felt great to be there. Like we will be able to breathe again.

Because I wouldn't take the job unless the participants would be wearing Pandemic-Masks during the process, the Client left a lot of masks for the Guests in the Face Painting area. And I was wearing Mask and Gloves myself.

But the masks were too big for the children. Between the large masks and the hats that many of them were wearing, that left me with very little area to paint. Added to that, the guests would tell me things like "I want a cookie here (next to her eye) and a cupcake here (next to her other eye). Just Things. Or a guest would come back after requesting a 'Cooking Utensil' on each arm ~ the Then request a Queen Esther on her arm too ~ just a lot of Things.

So this time I didn't get chances to paint my usual Face Transformations (even if just on forehead/eyes). I painted a lot of Things. It felt easy.

And it kept the children happy. Some kept coming back for more and more.

Here are photos of a few of the simple things I painted for them:

Playing around with my Face Paints. Because I have to be on top of my game when I get to the Party.

I usually keep my Facepainting posts on the Face Painting page of this website. But this post lands on that photographing conundrum which affects All my Party Art. Caricatures and Fashion Sketches and Freehand Tattoos as well as Face Painting.

Dreaming up designs for my upcoming 4th of July Face Painting events, I got carried away practicing Roses. Not sure yet how I'm going to adapt these into Independence Day designs, but it is just soooo satisfying to create roses.

Then I went to Photograph what I painted. So I can post it here online. And immediately ~ my phone's camera confronted me with almost 10 choices of just how I can initially Take the photos. Got to choose at least one of them. That's hard ~ because they each have their own attractions. And none of them look exactly like what I painted. Photographs never look exactly like the original Art.

I took a few of them to show you here. It's all of the exact same painting.

I can't just study these and choose which type of photo would always be best. Each different time and each different location has different Lighting. Which also strongly affects the many photos that the camera offers.

So I just snap photos ~ any photo. Because I have so many other concerns about performing at events. It feels tempting to perfect every aspect of everything we do, but we have to decide where we're going to spend how much effort. And no matter which photo I choose to take, it will be better than what we had available to us even a few years ago.